
With MIVA Merchant, creating an online storefront has never been this easy...or this affordable!
MIVA
Merchant v5 Now Available!
Miva Merchant is a dynamic storefront development and
management system that enables merchants to create, enhance, and
maintain an online storefront presence easily, all from their web
browser. From easy point-and-click look and feel enhancement to
advanced management of order and customer data, Miva Merchant can
do it all.
Miva Merchant includes a complete set of step-by-step wizards to
simplify the process of building a store, for e-commerce
beginners. It also includes an Advanced Administration mode, for
those users who are more familiar with the inner workings of an
online storefront, which allows access to an assortment of
built-in features. Aftermarket modules integrate seamlessly,
providing additional features and flexibility, thanks to Miva
Merchant's modular architecture..

Shopping Demo
The
MIVA
fresh online demo store is an online storefront that demonstrates one possible implementation of the
MIVA Merchant Storefront Development and Management System.
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Easy to Get Started
We want to make e-commerce easy for you. That is why we came
up with the Simple Administration. Designed for e-commerce
beginners, the Simple Administration is a series of wizards
that walks you step-by-step through the process of creating
an online store. Each wizard contains detailed instructions
on what your steps are. These wizards are also accessible
individually through the Advanced Administration. |
Included Wizard modules:
Create
Store Wizard
Look
and Feel Configuration Wizard
Add
Product Wizard
Add
Product Attribute Wizard
Add
Category Wizard
Shipping
Configuration Wizard
Payment
Configuration Wizard
Sales
Tax Configuration Wizard
Fulfillment
Configuration Wizard
Affiliate
Configuration Wizard
Add
Affiliate Wizard |
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Easy to Configure
Once you have that down pat,
or you've done e-commerce before, you're ready for the Advanced
Administration. This is where you will manage and maintain your Miva
Merchant store. Through the Advanced Administration, you will have
access to a variety of useful features, many of which are listed
below:
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Custom Fields |
Customize
Product Display to Suit Your Business
- Enhance existing product information by defining your own
product fields to be shown on the product display screen. You
can create fields for any form of product data, such as ISBN,
UPC, Manufacturer, etc. |
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Attribute Templates |
Manage the
Attributes of Many Products at Once -
Instead of building attributes individually per product, you can
create one template of attributes to assign quickly to multiple
products. Changes can be made to the single attribute template,
and applied to all products using it. |
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Inventory Tracking |
Stay on Top of
Your Inventory Levels - Track
inventory levels for your products automatically in Miva
Merchant. With inventory tracking, you can display customized
messages to your shoppers related to stock levels, and even
temporarily hide out of stock products. |
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Export
Utilities |
Utilize the
Data from Your Store - Export order,
product, customer, and affiliate data conveniently with multiple
export utilities built-in to Miva Merchant. Data is exported to
a secure location on your website. |
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Flat-File Import |
Import Your
Existing Product Database - Import
thousands of products at once with the Flat-File Import module.
You can even set inventory levels, assign products to existing
categories, and apply attribute templates, all with just one
import. |
Site
Traffic
and Sales Statistics |
Know Who's
Visiting, and Who's Buying - View
storefront hits and visits, count revenue, and track which
products in your Miva Merchant store are your bestsellers,
automatically in the admin interface. |
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Affiliate Program |
Put Networking
to Work - Use a partner’s website to
drive traffic to your Miva Merchant storefront with the
affiliate program. Affiliates can login and keep track of
earnings based on defined commission levels, per affiliate.
Affiliates also have access to a banner image and an
affiliate-specific URL to your storefront for use in promoting. |
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Order
Encryption |
Provide
Security for Your Shoppers - Encrypt
sensitive order details with order encryption. Payment
information is locked with a passphrase that you create, to help
prevent stolen data. |
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ELF2
Logging |
Track Revenues
and Transactions - Miva Merchant can
generate a log file for use with Urchin’s E-Commerce module for
the
Urchin® v5 software. Use this log to track revenue and
transaction information. |
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Availability Groups |
Products
Exclusively for Special Customers -
Create groups of customers that have access to special products
or categories that are not publicly available. Availability
Groups are very useful when selling special membership
merchandise. |
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Price
Groups |
Special
Pricing for Special Customers - Price
Groups can be used to offer certain customers discounts on
specific products in your store. You can use price groups to
create a wholesaler group with a percent discount off the retail
price. |
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Related Products |
Increase Sales
of Complementary Products - Draw
customers’ attention to complementary products to help boost
sales with the related products feature. You can assign an
unlimited number of related products. |
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Upsale |
Increase Sales
at Checkout - Offer special discounted
products to your customers during checkout when they spend a
certain amount in your store. You can even tie an upsold product
to another item in your storefront. |
Easy to Customize
Miva Merchant has a number
of convenient, point-and-click look and feel enhancement tools
designed to give you flexibility for customizing your store. In
addition to the pre-defined templates, Miva Merchant offers
HTML-ready headers and footers on each storefront page. You can also
easily integrate your Miva Merchant storefront into your existing
website, or use the look and feel tools to create a unique,
stand-alone shopping experience.
Easy to Manage
Miva Merchant has extensive
management systems that handle all the aspects of products,
categories, customers, and orders. With an easy-to-use
administrative interface, managing all of your store’s data has
never been easier.
Miva Merchant allows an unlimited number of
products to be listed in your storefront. Detailed product
descriptions can be created using HTML, and product attributes can
be assigned to display options. The product management system helps
you organize your products and easily manage all product data.
Just like products, Miva Merchant can
handle an unlimited number of categories. Use the category
management system to create your main categories, and further
specify with sub-categories. Assigning products to categories and
sub-categories is conveniently handled within the category
management system.
Keeping track of your customers can be a
hassle. But with Miva Merchant’s customer management system, it’s a
snap. Customers can create accounts on your storefront, and add or
update their contact information. Using your customer database, you
can offer special pricing and products when customers sign-in to
your store.
Your Miva Merchant orders come into a
centralized location within your Miva Merchant admin. Under Order
Processing, you can batch your orders at the end of the day, run a
batch report to analyze order data, and even process your orders
through your payment gateway right from within Miva Merchant.
Easy to Collect Money
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Miva Merchant has a wide
variety of built-in payment modules, designed to work smoothly
with industry leaders. These payment modules were designed in
partnership with the Payment Gateway providers, to ensure
security and ease-of-use. Just turn it on, enter your account
information, and the payment module does the rest.
If convenience is what
you desire, we offer Miva Payment. Tightly
integrated into Miva Merchant, Miva Payment features advanced
fraud screening, an online Virtual Terminal, and order
processing directly through the Miva Merchant admin interface.
Coupled with our world-class customer service, Miva Payment
offers you a complete credit card processing solution. |
Included
Payment Gateway modules:
- Miva Payment
- Authorize.Net
- Cardservice/LinkPoint
- Check Payment
- COD
- Credit Card Payment with
Simple Validation
- CyberSource
- debit-it!
- E-Commerce Exchange/QuickCommerce
- e-ValuCheck
- GlobalCommerce
- Innovative Gateway
Solutions
- Lynk Internet Processing
- Moneris e-SELECT
- Paradata Payment Service
- PayPal
- PayQuake
- Rodopi
- US Merchant Systems
- Verisign Payflow Pro
- Verisign Payflow Link
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Easy to Ship Orders
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FedEx, USPS, and UPS
shipping calculators are included with Miva Merchant. These
modules retrieve shipping rates directly from the service
providers based on the weight of the order and the distance it
will be traveling. In addition to these automatic shipping
calculators, we have included a number of table-based shipping
modules to help you offer a range of shipping options to your
customers. With the table-based shipping modules, you can build
your own shipping rate tables to meet your needs. |
Included
shipping modules:
Automatic Shipping
Calculators:
- FedEx Shipping Cost
Estimate
- UPS Domestic Shipping
Calculator
- U.S.P.S. Online Rate
Calculation
Table-Based Shipping
Calculators:
- Base + Weight Shipping
- Flat Rate Shipping
- Minimum or Weight Shipping
- Price Table Based Shipping
- Quantity Based Shipping
- Weight Table Based
Shipping
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Easy to Calculate Tax
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Configuring sales tax
can be a difficult task for a storefront administrator. But with
Miva Merchant, we have covered all possible ways sales tax could
be calculated, and built tools to help you charge the right
amount. From automatic sales tax percentage calculation with
CertiTAX to entering your own sales tax or VAT charges, Miva
Merchant covers all bases. |
Included
Tax modules:
- CertiTAX Real-Time Tax
Solution
- State Based Sales Tax
- Shopper Selected Sales Tax
- Canadian VAT
- German VAT
- Generic VAT
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Easy to Sell Worldwide
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No matter if you are
selling your products in the US, or anywhere else in the world,
Miva Merchant can display your product prices in just about any
currency format. Preset currency templates for US and European
currency make it easy to adjust your storefront for those
markets. With the Generic Currency module, you can define your
own currency layout. |
Included
Currency modules:
- US Currency
- European Currency
- Generic Currency
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Easy to Expand
If all of these features are not enough for you, don't worry. Miva
Merchant is specifically designed so developers and aftermarket
vendors can implement their own customized modules around a common
API. What this means for users is, Miva Merchant can easily accept
plug-in modules from third party developers, to expand on the
already wide array of built-in features. With Miva's extensive
Developer Network, finding a module to meet your e-commerce needs is
a breeze. No matter what you may need your Miva Merchant storefront
to do, with the availability of third-party modules, anything is
possible.
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